Sick Clinton cancels appointments

Mon May 4, 11:47 am ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton canceled her appointments Monday laid low by her allergies, an official said, stressing she was not suffering from swine flu.

"She does not have the flu, just a bit under the weather," said State Department spokesman Robert Wood. "She will be back tomorrow. She is suffering from allergies."

Clinton had been due to meet with Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt as well as his Armenian counterpart Edouard Nalbandian. Both meetings have been rescheduled for Tuesday.

The US top diplomat traveled to Mexico, the epicenter of the swine flu outbreak, in late March. And the White House said last week that one member of a delegation which accompanied President Barack Obama to Mexico last month had caught the A(H1N1) virus, but had recovered.

According to official US figures, there are 226 confirmed cases of swine flu across more than half of the nation's 50 states.

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I hope that she's alright.

:(

Oldest ds is miserable despite all of his meds and weekly shots.

The other day I drove with the windows down because it was such a nice night and by the time I got home I wanted to scratch my eyes out, they itched that much.

:7

and it has not been a bad allergy season for me at all. Some sneezing and stuffiness, but no real eye trouble. I still wonder when the allergy season ends though, because I am almost out of honey. Probably I should just buy another pound and keep taking it all year. It's certainly not unpleasant medicine. It has to be local honey, but my grocer has that.

Thanks for the advice. I'll have to try it.

:hi:

and there is some scientific reasoning. The local honey contains the same allergens as the pollen we react to. I try to start before allergy season, because once I start rubbing on my eyes, it is all over.

OK, I have to look and see what I have at home. I don't think that it's local. it may be time to go to the farmer's market. LOL!!

:)

I do swear by Zyrtec though. I take it at night because it tends to make me sleepy. It is a 24 hr. pill, so it lasts until the next night. This season has been wonderful for me. BTW, I get it at Sam's (we do not have a Cosco) and it is very reasonably priced.

I only get allergies on occasion, so I don't want to take something regularly. Although I'm a member of Sam's too and I will take a look at it just in case. Thanks for the advice.

:hi:

It's a cacophony of sneezes at the office. LOL!!

:D

With all that travel I'm sure you can pick lots of bugs, not necessarily swine flu, tho.

It sounds a little strange to me, but what do I know?

:shrug:

Bill is the one who is racked with allergies. It's unusual for her to be sick.

:(

be susceptible when there's a lot of pollen in the air.

Bill was well known for his allergies and he would be miserable sometimes. His eyes would be red and puffy, and his voice would be hoarse. He also suffers from rosacea and it's gotten worse over the years. Sometimes his nose gets as swollen as that of WC Fields. But Hil is seldom sick.

;)

...well...

Allergies are very common here.

Sam

You got crappy climate, too humid. Not that Jersey is much better........

:7

I worked downtown for a number of years. And yes, it is pretty humid here.

Sam

;(

She started losing her voice during speeches and remarked about her allergies and allergy shots.

My symtoms have reduced by 95%.

At first I didn't believe they would work because I suffered so much every year.

But ~ something must be working because I rarely have a problem now.

Don't worry.

that she canceled appointments due to illness.

What with her history with NAFTA, it seems like it would be her responsibility to catch it.

Geez.........

x(

:eyes:

when he was miserable just by looking at him with his eyes swollen, watery and mouth-breathing.

FDR was also a major sufferer and was a mouth-breather for that reason. It's also the reason the White House wasn't air-conditioned and didn't get painted very often - he couldn't stand the effect of either on his sinuses.

I don't recall Hillary having allergies.

I didn't know that FDR suffered from them too. How did smoking a cigar help?

:hi:

Everybody smokin'...

How could I forget the pics of him with the cigarette and Churchill with his eternal cigars.

:-)

Sending good vibes your way! :loveya:

All that travel probably doesn't help. I sometimes think all of the Administration needs a 3-day weekend in the Bahamas....

Of Tim G. and Larry Summers playing beach volleyball. LOL

I know that I get sick usually when I'm under too much stress, otherwise I'm fairly healthy. Stress does something to the immune system.

:(

And I'm only a few years older than she is.

I don't know how she does it. It must help that she travels on a plane not filled with people and their viruses. I came down with a bad virus from a person on my trip over to northern Italy last spring. That was no fun, believe me. I was visiting Milan's La Scala between bouts in bathrooms all the way to the opera house...a fun thing...not!

I sincerely hope this is just allergies.

Go get some Zyrtec. Works wonders.

back in the '70s. Allergies hit so bad that I had to miss work. Also serial sinus infections. Nasty. Moved back to Colorado in 80 and haven't suffered seriously with allergies since. Sympathies for those who suffer with allergies, it's truly awful.

And I doubt she would cancel unless she was feeling really crummy. Hope she can rest a little, the downside of having an administration that does not take vacations every other week is that they risk getting sick by too much work.

Afghanistan coming to DC,

- and the pollen has been washed out of the air. Maybe she has the nasty head cold that's going around but there hasn't been any pollen in the air here for days.

She was in NY. She comes home weekends whenever she can (Bill doesn't much like going to DC).

:-)

cars etc are a MESS!

or maybe she's reading eliz e's book. :(

that's how bad our air is - 6 in 10 of us sick from the air

:wow:

nt

Not to worry.

I forgot that the guy's name is Wood, I was thinking more of Bill's needs.........

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My bad

:spank:

:D

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For a moment I wondered if she was playing hookie because Bill whined that his needs were not being met thanks to all her travels. I'm sure that he would be a hard man to resist when he goes on full charm mode.

:evilgrin:

Hope she feels better soon.

It must be a nationwide thing.

:(

dose of pollen. Plus the weather is whacky (which happens every spring), sunshine one day, rainy and windy the next, so that activates any mold that might be around.

We had a heat wave at the beginning of last week and it got to be in the upper 80s (that's when my eyes got so itchy), now it's been rainy and in the 60s for the last 4 days. Go figure......

:shrug:

this be in another forum?

:wtf:

Our Secretary of State took a sick day and we need to know about it.

Get well, Hill!

But, not to fear, the usual crowd got wind of it and will soon ruin it.

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think this is the proper forum. The lounge, perhaps?

I regularly check out Kerry's and Biden's groups, where there are articles specific to them posted there. Maybe it would be better there? Still, Hillary is the Sec of State and anything about her could be here as this is the Presidential Forum. Who knows?

a similar objection from you on the thread about "keeping it kicked until Al Franken is seated". Is that more "presidential" than this?

Or maybe I just missed it.

there are threads about joe the plumber, President Obama's Mother, their dog Bo ,and the Presidents sports picks . What is presidential news about those threads ? Shouldn't they be in another forum?

thank you for posting this, and please take care of yourself too.:hi:

Yes, she's back at work.

Hugs!!!!

:hug:

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I've never had them this bad. I wonder if our air quality really is that bad.

She's been working very hard lately - she's due for a little rest.

thanks to the poor air quality. No wonder there's an epidemic of kids with asthma!!

;(

You made it!

Even people who are normally not vulnerable are sick. Here in NYC, the joke is that you could hardly tell if you're getting the swine flu because so many people are sick with allergy-related stuff.

I'm in the area and many people are just miserable right now. At work it has become a joke. Every time that someone sneezes they clarify that they don't have the swine flu.

I wonder if people were so allergic in the past or have allergies become worse over the years due to environmental pollution.

:(